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How many players since 1901 have had two or more seasons with 180+ hits while fashioning an OPS+ under 100?

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August 2, 1919 Philadelphia Phillies at Chicago Cubs Box Score and Play by Play - Baseball-Reference.com.

Thanks to the phenomenal work of RetroSheet, we now have 1919 box scores, gamelogs and splits on the site.  The play index has also been updated with 1919 data where appropriate.

In addition, a couple dozen previously undiscovered play-by-play accounts have been added for more recent  seasons and numerous bugs have been fixed both in our scripts and in the retrosheet data.

Please let us know if you come across any bugs or things that need to be fixed.

Yesterday I noted that Bob Feller finished his career with both 99 runs scored and 99 RBI. Not very many pitchers have reached the century mark in both categories:

There are quite a few more pitchers who did it pre-1950, when pitchers got a lot more plate appearances in a season.

Since Steven Carlton, only one pitcher has reached 100 career runs or RBI, and that's Greg Maddux with 103 career runs scored.

Among active pitchers, Mike Hampton (who actually just retired) leads the way with 97 runs scored, followed by Carlos Zambrano with 64. For RBI it's Hampton with 79 and Livan Hernandez with 78.

(This is a totally frivolous post.)

Here are the most runs scored in a season since 1901 for a player with an identical number of runs and RBI:

Yeah, Frank Robinson sure was worn out at age 30 in his first season after the Reds got rid of him. Just look at all those bold numbers.

Anyway, here are the leaders for a career since 1901:

I carried this list a little further since I was amazed to see that Bob Feller had exactly 99 runs AND RBI. Wow. Plus any excuse to list fan-favorite Jeff Manto...

Kevin Millwood finally has a team after signing a minor-league deal with the Yankees. I'm surprised it took him so long to find a job.

Yeah, in 2010 he had just an 82 ERA+ and 16 losses, but check out the list of the most recent guys to do that:

This is not a list full of stinkers. Yeah, there are a lot of guys who led their league in losses (see bold numbers). But then there are some guys like #8 Verlander, #13 Cain, and #17 Webb who had excellent OPS+ against numbers and still racked up the losses. Quite a few other names on this list put together good careers and had many other good seasons.

Don't get me wrong--I'm not suggesting that Millwood is a #1 or #2 type guy, especially at his age. But he's a pretty good bet to be solid, pitch a lot of innings, go relatively deep into games, and be a good guy to fill the back end of a rotation. Given that he ultimately agreed to a minor-league deal, I'm surprised some team didn't throw a couple of million bucks at him to make him a #5 starter.

How many teams had 8+ pitchers in a season where the pitcher won more games than he lost and had at least 10 decisions?

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Following on to my list of the 20 most productive hitters of 2010, here's a list of the 20 most productive pitchers.

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Here's one way of finding the most productive players (hitters edition) of 2010.

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I was totally "playing" around with Play Idex today - asking it to show me "Spanning Multiple Seasons or entire Careers, from 1920 to 2010, requiring SB>=100 and SB>5.0*HR, sorted by greatest WAR (Position Players)" and I got this leader board:

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Just goofing around, I decided to run a query of "For single seasons, From 1901 to 2010, requiring RBI>.5*TB and At least 100 games, sorted by greatest Runs Batted In."

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